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Joe Conforte was born in 1926 and is 98 years old now.
Birthday: 1926
How Old - Age: 98
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Joe Conforte - Biography
Joe Conforte (born 1926) was the owner of the Mustang Ranch, a Nevada brothel that was the first legal brothel in the United States. The brothel was closed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 1999, but is now reopened under new management. He is portrayed by Joe Pesci in the 2010 film Love Ranch.
Joe Conforte and his wife, Sally Burgess Conforte took over the Mustang Bridge Ranch in Storey County in 1967. In 1971, Storey County made prostitution legal and licensed Sally Conforte as a brothel owner. Joe Conforte paid bellmen at the famous Mapes Hotel to direct guests to the legal brothel. In 1973 Conforte made a cameo appearance as himself in the Don Siegel film Charley Varrick, which starred Walter Matthau.
In April 1977, Joe and Sally Conforte were arrested on ten counts of income tax evasion. She was fined $40,000 and given a suspended sentence; he faced a minimum five years in prison and $40,000 fine. Conforte appealed his conviction but fled the country in 1980 when he lost the appeal. He later returned and served a reduced sentence.
Conforte fled to Brazil in 1991, ahead of a federal grand jury handing up numerous indictments in 1995 and 1998. The Brazilian Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that the extradition treaty between Brazil and the United States did not cover bankruptcy fraud. He still lives there now.
Conforte's second wife, Sally, died in 1992. He has two daughters (born c. 1992 and 1995) with his first wife and one other daughter with a woman in Nevada.
